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"Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Quand une regle est fort composée, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irrégulier. [When a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for irregular]. -Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), §6.
"Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction." -Gregory Bateson (1955) "A theory of play and fantasy"
"Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its…
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